Crossword-Solution: RANSOM 6 letters, 161 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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Word Word Type Definition
Ransom n. The release of a captive, or of captured property, by
payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of
ransom.
Ransom n. The money or price paid for the redemption of a prisoner,
or for goods captured by an enemy; payment for freedom from restraint,
penalty, or forfeit.
Ransom n. A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the
discharge of the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal
punishment.
Ransom n. To redeem from captivity, servitude, punishment, or
forfeit, by paying a price; to buy out of servitude or penalty; to
rescue; to deliver; as, to ransom prisoners from an enemy.
Ransom n. To exact a ransom for, or a payment on.

Anagrams

Word Anagrams
RANSOM anagram MANORS, MORANS, NOARMS, NORMAS, ONMARS, RAMONS, RAMSON, ROMANS

We have 161 clues for the answer “RANSOM”

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'96 Mel Gibson flick 1 answer
1956 Glenn Ford crime drama 1 answer
1956 Glenn Ford film remade in 1996 1 answer
1996 Mel Gibson film 1 answer
1996 Mel Gibson movie 1 answer
1996 Ron Howard thriller 1 answer
1996 film directed by Ron Howard 1 answer
1996 movie with the tagline "Someone is going to pay" 1 answer
Abductor's demand 1 answer
Automaker Olds 1 answer
Bucks for captives 1 answer
Buy out of bondage. 1 answer
Captive's cost 1 answer
Captor's cash 1 answer
Carmaker Olds's first name 1 answer
Cash on demand? 1 answer
Coerced payment 1 answer
Contingency for release 1 answer
Cost of redeeming a hostage. 1 answer
Dropped money? 1 answer
Duffel bag filler, in a thriller 1 answer
Figure in a kidnapping case 1 answer
Forced fee for freedom 1 answer
Free, but not for free 1 answer
Getty money in "All the Money in the World" 1 answer
Holding charge 1 answer
Illicit sum 1 answer
It's dropped for a release 1 answer
Kidnap cost 1 answer
Kidnap demand 1 answer
Kidnap price 1 answer
Kidnapper's concern 1 answer
Kidnapper's demand 1 answer
Kidnapper's objective 1 answer
Kidnapper's payoff 1 answer
Kidnapper's request 1 answer
Kind of note that might be written with letters clipped from a magazine 1 answer
King's __ (large amount of money) 1 answer
King's __ (much money) 1 answer
King's ___ (fortune) 1 answer
King's ___ (large sum of money) 1 answer
Mel Gibson flick 1 answer
Money demanded by a kidnapper 1 answer
Money for a hostage. 1 answer
Money for freedom 1 answer
Money in a paper bag, maybe 1 answer
Money in the bag, maybe 1 answer
Money left at a secret location, maybe 1 answer
Money of exchange 1 answer
Money on demand? 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RANSOM (5)

Say Heav’nly Powers, where shall we find such love, Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Mans mortal crime, and just th’ unjust to save, Dwels in all Heaven charitie so deare? He ask’d, but all the Heav’nly Quire stood mute, And silence was in Heav’n: on mans behalf Patron or Intercessor none appeerd, Much less that durst upon his own head draw The deadly forfeiture, and ransom set.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Why can’t a body take a club and ransom them as soon as they get here?” “Because it ain’t in the books so—that’s why.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
And so they marched out of the village of the Waziri, and on the shoulders of their slaves was the ivory ransom of a score of kings.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Since you disdain to accept from him any share of the ransom at which you have rated the arms of the other knights, I must leave his armour and his horse here, being well assured that he will never deign to mount the one nor wear the other.” “You have spoken well, good squire,” said the Disinherited Knight, “well and boldly, as it beseemeth him to speak who answers for an absent master.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
The child must be his little Jack; but who could the woman be—and the man? Was it possible that one of Rokoff’s confederates had conspired with some woman—who had accompanied the Russian—to steal the baby from him? If this was the case, they had doubtless purposed returning the child to civilization and there either claiming a reward or holding the little prisoner for ransom.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993

Quotes with RANSOM (3)

Ransom really looked at the other man for the first time, shook his head, stared again.“Holy hell, your eyes are like a fucking viper’s.” Venom raised an eyebrow.“You have hair prettier than one of Astaad’s concubines.” Ransom gave the vampire the finger. Venom grinned.
Nalini Singh Archangel's Consort
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…
Thomas Aquinas
By now, she was far from the scorch of these sands. After the ransom deal, she would be safely married in England. To Ashton. And Caine, who had hurt her far more than anything Abdullah had planned for her with that long, curved dagger, deserved no better than this torment of knowing it.
V.S. Carnes
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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 133 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).